I wrote this Villanelle several years ago for a Valentine challenge on Poetbay.com. The rhymes aren’t exactly right, but it does make a unique Valentine poem. Valentine Cupid’s arrows pierce my heart, Despite love’s shifting sands Never will we two part Card stolen from Wal-Mart More than eruptions from my glands Cupid’s arrows pierce [...]
It’s almost May… On the Story a Day website it boldly says: StoryADay.org is home to an annual Extreme Writing Challenge: Write a story every day in May. Still confused. Want more info. Here are “The Rules” from StoryADay.org. The Rules You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~Ray Bradbury The [...]
I made my anagram poem, an Aragman, from a line from “A Blessing”, a beautiful poem by James Arlington Wright. I found 6001 anagrams for “contain their happiness.” I chose the ones I used for the poem below from the first 1000. Here are the basic rules for constructing an Aragman (courtesy of Mary Jensen, [...]
It is so important as creatives that we find a group of people that we feel comfortable with. They share our values, our interest in creating and inspire and challenge us. Or maybe we just like to hang around with them, have fun and do fun things with them. Groups offer us a chance to [...]
Art sometimes inspires me to write poetry. Below are two paintings and the poems they inspired. Please read Lin’s post A New Way of Looking: Ekphrasis for an introduction to this idea. It is often not enough to just see a painting and write; sometimes research into the subject or the artist is helpful. I researched [...]
Preditors & Editors™ Readers’ Poll Results I’m happy to announce that the cover for “Lifelines” by Lin Neiswender won third place in book/ebook cover art in the Preditors & Editors™ Readers’ Poll. Also the Poetic Muselings placed third in poets in the same poll. Our anthology, “Lifelines”, placed tenth in anthologies in the Preditors [...]
The end of the year is a fantastic time to evaluate one’s writing life with an eye to the future. It’s a time to look at the big picture and see if you have met, exceeded, or fallen short of your self-created writing goals for the year. This self-evaluation was inspired by the About.com Graduate [...]
I bet you have lots of media in your home, like CDs, books, DVDs, even art—all made by someone else or a group of other people. Have you ever considered making your own media, your own art? As the rash of consumerism that spreads over the country at this time of year attests, there is [...]
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